The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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Happenings the Wldo World Over of
Important Events Condense* to
Good Reading.
washington.
Amalllnn the prosit of the United
States for Its support of ilio Cuuadlan
reciprocity bill, Senator I.a Kollette
of Wisconsin niud<a his closing specch
against tho bill in tbo sonaltt Friday.
The United Stall's Steol Corporation
in obtaining tho Tonmssoe t'oal, Iron
and Railroad rompuiiy and its South-
ern ore land '^"aHu il its monopoly of
the ores of tat' American continent
and tied up available fields lor in-
dependent concerns," declared Chair-
man Htanlwy of the house steel trust
investigating committee Saturday.
Uepti ! entatiy ) Burleson of Texas
Saturday received a memorial signed
by a large number of Americans re-
siding in Mexico urging this country
to negotiate a reciprocity pact with
Mexico as has been done with Can-
ada.
Senators Hoot and Burton and other
opponents of the congressional reap-
portionment bill now admit that the
measure will pass the senate when
the vote is reached on it under the all-
around agreement «<f August it, but
they are still hopeful of securing
amendments that will be of advantage
to the republicans
Vigorous support of the Canadian
reciprocity agreement by Senators
tirown of Nebraska, Stone of Missouri,
and Works of California, and a short
speich against the measure by Sena
tor Konyon of Iowa, made up Wed-
nesday's debate on the measure In the
senate. Senator Stone arraigned the
Interests which he said had been
u in:; the farmers for the purpose of
attacking reciprocity, lie declared
democrats could find no excuse for
not ■■•iDporti* the ac.reenunt as in-
troduo I by President Tat'.
Representative Crahatn of Illinois,
chairman of the house committee in
\es': ntliiK the Alaskan scandal, lh
much pleased because his sleuths
have located and sunpoenaed Richard
S. Ryan, author of the alleged letter
to Richard A. Uailinger connecting
Charles I*. Taft with the grab of a
harbor site on Controller bay.
Two witnesses before tint Lorlme?
Inquiry committee Tuesday refuted iu
detail the sv\. n statements of Wil-
liam Burgess, who declared that C.
1' Wiehe of Chicago, secretary of th<=
Kdward llines Lumbixr company, had
i imi-ii that he h i contributed $ 10,
000 toward .t fund of ♦luo.utju to elect
Loritnci
hi-, iior Ileyburn "f Idaho Tuegday
refou;;ht the < ivll war, IncidenUtlly
f.ilng a ehot aL Sterling I'rlce t'atup
of the Confeilet.ite veterans «>f Dallas
'1( "... , lor objecting to a picture ol
l.iucoln hi the Colonial lliil school.
The oi' .' -ion of the outburst was Sen
ator William.- bill to appropriate
jl.i hi for a monument at Vicks
1 iu t;Mi "to the constancj and
courage of the Confederate soldiers
The bill uas reported unanimously by
the senate committee on military af
fairs and was put on the calendar
for Immediate consideration over
Ileyburn s objection by a vole of 2'd
to 1U.
domestic.
a bill to remove the state capital
from Atlartu to Macon was Intro-
duced in the Georgia house Friday
The American Federation of Labor
Saturday inaugurated a campaign to
raise money with which to conduct
the defense of the McNatnaras,
charged with dynamiting the plant of
the Los Angeles Times.
William Godfrey aged 91, the last
member of the fanny of Francis God-
frey, the last war chief of the Miami
Indians, died at I'eru, Ind , Saturday.
Godfrey was married nine times.
Twenty one new cases of typhoid
fover were re| orted to the Mobile,
Ala , board of health Saturday, mak-
ing a total ol over two hundred cases
since the first day of June, eigftty new
cases being reported since Monday
morniim The lever has been declared
c| Identic
Will Harris. :'>4 years of age, a prom-
inent merchant of Fort Worth, who
tiled at a hospital following illness
from typhoid pellagra, is the fifth
victim of pellagra In San Antonio dur
In)- Jul; 'Ilio attending physician
stated that there was only a slight
eruption ol the skin apparent on Mr.
Ham* when he entered the insntu
lion two months ago, but the disease
l> developed until the entire body
wa al'l 'cted,
K I Powdell of Arteslnn, S 1).,
formei fust vice president Of the or
>ranl .itlon, was i^hosen as president
of ilie National > Association of
America at the closing s msiuu K ,Uuy
In Del roll, M.ch.
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Cotton picking Is now fully unier
way over u great portion of South-
west Texas and the demand for cot-
ton pickers Is becoming pronounced.
There have been planted in the lower
Rio Grande valley ti&.uou acres of cot-
ton.
In token of the fact that the Mexi-
can revolution is now recognized as
a closed incident by the United States
government. Colonel E. Z. Steever, In
command of the United States troops
at El 1'aso, has returned to the Mexl-
cun government ull the arms and am-
munition taken during the time the
revolution was in progress.
Thousands of people knelt Wednes-
day before the open air altar in Balboa
park on the : ltu of the Panama canal
exposition at San Ulego, Cal. A mass
was celebrated as a preliminary to
ground breaking for the exposition.
Brigadier General Joseph W, Pun-
i can, commanding the department of
■ Texas, has uggested that tho head-
quarters, machine gun patrol and two
battalions of tho Twenty-second In-
fantry, platoon and sU troops of tho
Third cavalry at San Antonio, be sent
, to Camp Mabry, Austin, to partici-
pate in the Texas National Guard en-
campment in August.
By tlie accounting of the executors
of the estate of the late Mark Twain,
accepted by tho probate court Tues-
day in Connecticut, tho Inheritance
lax to be paid the State amounts to
J5.1U7.01.
Speeding a ross the Atlantic on a
steamer are Uoti Benito Legarda and
Don Manuel Luis Quezon, resident
Philippine commissioners ut Washing-
ton They are hurrying to Paris to
complete arrangements with French
hankers whereby the latter wijl
finance a Philippine agricultural bank
to the tune of $10,OUO,UOO.
By a majority of 1,453 votes, Jersey
City, N. J., rejected Tuesday the com-
mission form of government, which i
the New Jersey legislature prescribed
and Governor Wilson defended. There
were 13.UU8 votes against tho pluu
and 11,585 .n its favor.
Glus >ppe Serimarco, who killed two
men during his twenty-seven years of
life, paid the penally for one of his
Jeeds Monday ut Sing Sing prison,
New York. One minute's contact pro-
duced death, making the quickest exe-
i uiton siuce tho electric chixir wu iu
troduced
Intermittent showers have fallen
over the greater portion of South Tex-
as for the past week, with good rains
In some sections. Sunday and Mon-
day heavy rains, accompanied by elec-
trical and thunder storms, have visit-
ed many localities. The precipitation
has been as great as two and ouo
half inches iu a lew places.
foreign.
Aviator Torrldan, piloting a small
biplane at the aerdotne at Mo.irmet.on,
France, Friday, covered liij-'-t miles,
remaining in the air 11 hours and -l ■
minutes. This is a new worlds rec-
crd for distance and time.
Cape Haitien Is iu the hands of the
revolution! ts and the sole protection
of the Americans aud other foreign-
er at the port is tin American yacht
which arrived Friday.
The playright Henry Bernstein
Friday [ought a duel with l.eon Duu-
ilvt, editor of I.'Action l'rancaise, In
i'aris, ln>t with pistols and then with
swords. Both men were wounded in
the bout with swords, but it is not.
believed seriously. M. Bernstein took
Axceptlous to articles which appeared
in L. M. Paudet's paper and chal-
lenged tho editor.
The house of lords in London pass-
ed tho third reading of the parliament
bill, otherwise known as the veto bill,
without division Friday, after only
three hours debate. The revolt of the
insurgent peers failed to materialise.
Lady Otn, consort of Kmperor Yl
Hui of Korea, whn abdicated in 1907,
died Friday. Lady Otn was a palace
politician of great skill. She was
attendant upon the queen of Korea,
who was murdered. She gained tho
favor of the emperor and was finally
compelled to flee from the palace.
After the death of the queen she was
restored to the court with the rank
of au imperial concubine. This con
ferred imperial rank upon her two
children. She was originally a slave
The government of llaytl has pro
claimed a blockade of Uie ports of St
Marc, Gonnaives and Fort Liberte.
Having only one warship at Its dis-
posal, however, an effective blockade
Is impossible. The order for the bom-
bardment of St. Marc and Gonnaives
has not been carried out, aud the
cruiser Antolne Simon Is now nn
[•bored before Archaic, a port elgii
teen miles northwest of the capita'
Miss Kmma S. Peck, accompanied
by Carl Volka and five Peruvian-,
ascended two peak Ol tne \« le:,t.i
Coropuna, In Peru, on July 16 1 he
Coropumi is one of a number o( gianf
volcanoes In Smith' rn Peru, the elc
vat Ion of which is iitnisly given al
from IK.Oud to II0,i1 1 • ♦ •' t
According to advices received In
London Wednesday, Hie death: from
the plague in India have re.icliel the
enornion>, total oi tl,ci,ti90 for 'lo h.*ii
'ear cc'i
RECIPSGCITY BILL PASSED pajlnajuu.ahas i as assu *xi juulis.su> sjsjj aijuujuuujlo i
3 INCUBATORS
Washington. — Postmaster General
Hitchcock has ordered promotions for
postoffice clerks and city letter car-
ries which carry Increases in salaries
approximating $2,000,000 a year Or-
ders also were issued for promotions
In the railway mail service which will
total $175,000 a year. These Increases
nre in addition to the increase for
rural mall carriers totaling $l,t)u0,0 '0
a year, which became effective July 1
$2,000,000 Increase.
To Improve Tobacco Culture.
New York.—Great Britain will not
rely wholly on the decision of t ■
I'nitetl Slates Rupreme court to
lab h compelitlon in tub •• > I
•ler the Lloyd tieorge bud -t r!n I
ft'.,noo, a) to siioiul in im; >vii ,i
nculture, tind jiart of it has b ■ ■ ■:; -« '
i ale to determine if tolno > can h<>
raised in Lngland and Scotland.
Swims Fifteen Hours.
Dover, IOnglund.—Jabez Wolffe, the
iimtileur swimmer who started from.
San Ga'.te, on the coast of France, Sal-
unlay In another attempt to swim the
Knglish channel, was obliged to quit
nhett within a mile of St. Margarets
bay. lie continued the struggle for
fifteen hours and finally was bafflei/
by adverse tides.
inert a
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THE SENATE. AND ALL AMEND- ^
MfcNTS VOTED DOWN.
The Vote Stood 54 to 27—Balley'i "i
Free List Amendment Received J
Only Fifteen Votes.
Washington.—The senate Saturday
passed the reciprocity bill without
amendment by a vote of 64 to 27, but
one short of the 2 to 1 majority that ;
had been expected. Of the affirma
live votes, the president's own party
contributed but 21. while the demo
crats gave 32. Three of the repub-
lican votes came from Insurgents,
Ilrown of Nebraska, l'olndexter of
Washington and Works of California,
while lo Insurgents, 14 regular repub
licans and 3 democrats combined to
make up the 27 opposition. The three
democrats Wllo#pposet| the bill were
Bailey, Clarke of Arkansas and Sim
mont> of North Curoltna. One demo-
crat, Thornton of Louisiana, was
paired against the bill with Dumont
of Delaware, regular republican, who
would have voted fOT It had he been
present. Both Foster of Louisiana and
Paynter of Kentucky, democrats,
whose attitude toward the bill was
uncertain up to the hour the vote
was taken, turned up in affirmative
votes.
Before the final vote on tho reel-
porcity bill itself was reached there
were thlru roll calls on various
pending amendments, each roll call
resulting in the rejection of the pro-
posed changes by overwht lining ma-
jorities, practically all the affirmative
votes for the amendments coming
from tho insurgents. There were no
But!,, ses In these votes, us it had
boon the settled polity of both the
democrats and republican supporters
:>t the measures to put ii through in
the precise form in which it came
from the house in accordance with
the desire of the president and the
demand of the advocates of tho leg-
islation throughout the country,
The president will pot bo able to
affix his signature to tho ivupioe^ty
bill until some time this week, as the
bill under the rules must be finally
an-,xossed In tlie house in which it
On'mated v,iiile thut house i^ It. «iow -
lion.
Senator Bailey's amendment In the
-liape of free list bill with cotton bag-
ging and other agricultural iniple-
tneuts, received only fifteen votes.
..Are the Great ILw Money-Makers..
We are Agents in Central Texan for the Famous "MODEL" In*
cnbators, Brooders, and all hinds of Poultry Supplies, Etc.,
made by the Robert Ksaex Incubator Co. of Buffalo, N. Y.
Judging by our sales and the success our customers are having, we
consides the "Model'1 the Best Incubator in the market
todcy.
We hutched 70 per cent in our show window last week in a $17.00-
3CO-E&M' Sise Machine. Come and sen uur goods and let us show
you what they do.
IleVil Hardware Co.
511 Congress Ave. Austin
nnroinr^srrrs smmnrs^mstits mnr «tnr smnr srvmrsirrnrvmnrvinnnrS
New School Buildings.
Htintsvllle, Tex.—Of the ten new
public school buildings to be erected
in Walker county this year, several
have been completed. In course of
construction aro four others, one ut
Bath, another at Crabbs Prairie, a
third nt Kittrells and the new audi-
torium on tho campus of the hlgli
school.
Big Improvements for Angleton.
Angleton, Tex.—The Angleton Gin
and Power company has Its building
erected for its gin which is near the
crossing of the V 'lasco and Browns-
ville railways. They will have for
this year a four 70-saw plant and have
power enough for 1111 lco and electric
light plant to be put In later.
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The First National Bank,
OP BASTROP, TEXAS.
Capital, $5o,ooo.oo. Surplus, $lo,ooo.oo>
DIltCTORJi
X. S. uKUilD, frvatdanU W. A. McCOSU, VU< Picsiasnt.
CUulTBI KNHAHO, CaahUr.
R. 9. Ucktli, Mr. M. JHai>*i*itt*. A. C. Rtliard, m. J. Ilialu.
• AHTAI, Stttrtt)#, INDIVIDUAL BK UrONSlBttlTT
Of tli* StockS r« and uiiitnallfi mamiiiuitai ut th*
tl(«u(ili of a bank ....
Organlssed, developed and conducted along prcgresslr*
lines, Ooverned hjr the same principle. With twanty
yeers sac.iesstul business record, with ample capital, with
every facility lo properly care for all business entrusted to
tt, and operated along conaervute lit *is, it empccts to aosi-
tlnue to i^row both in ability mmu capacity to serve
SJSSSIIS Of Rastrop, Tems. CBHP
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The FowelS Sil itlill Co,
will pay tho Highest Prico
in cash, give you Honest
Weights, and buy at any
S time, winter or eunimor,
I Yoar Cotton Seed
Bagging—Ties
to er.chan^0 f°r
Seed Only.
Buy and Sell
everything for the
Cash Only.
POWELL OIL MILL CO.
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Shippers Are Aroused.
Hon ton, Tex.—As n result of the
:ti the rntes on cant! I and
■ from Bali I more ty Hoiih-
ton at ! other Texas pmnts because
o( t . e I I Ion of the It," ; 1 re and
am: dp company by the
■e, the shippers are con*
Buggies, Carriages, Saddles,
Harness, Whip3, Lap Robes. +
417 419 Congress Avenue.
AUSTIN TEXAS. $
Elegant Lino of Suit Cases. S
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G )d Reads at Lpckhart.
Itockhan, l"e\ Work 1 darted
on the '• avwtdl Kyle road iiml on tne
cr two other - hort pteteu of unfinl 'led
pliu >'- There has been laid twenty-
even mile ol road at an oxpcailituni
of Vd.'tOO In the precinct
> Patronize Home Industry, Buy Ycur Cemetery Work
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H. C. GRIFFIN
IMrst-Cla^p Work. Lowest Possible Prices
Courteous Treatment, Your Ord.-rs Appreciated
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